Single-player games like Escape Tales: The Awakening
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Escape Tales: The Awakening, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Escape from Norwood
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
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Mucorales
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
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The Sin
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
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Sarawak
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
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雪凤山 Secret Opera
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
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Bobok
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
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Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
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Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
Single-player alternative to Escape Tales: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Tales: The Awakening.
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.